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Comparing Media

Comparing media

Mir Hasil Bazinjo, Javed Jabbar, Asad Qaiser, Mian Mehmood-ur Rasheed, Rana Afzal, Gen (r) Abdul Qayum, Senator Saud Majeed, Munzza Hassan, Mehtab Rahidi, Senator Nauman Wazir, Shehryar Afridi, Dr Shoaib…

Media In Chains

Media in chains

This has been a bad year for freedom of expression in Pakistan. For both media and civil society, both freedom of expression and access to information have, in general, deteriorated…

Gender In The Media Today

Gender in the media today

Panelists speak at the launch of 'Through the Gender lens' on Monday, December 10, 2010 in Islamabad. -Photo by Dawn.com/Zeresh John  With honour killings and acid attacks making frequent headlines,…

The Media’s Crisis Of Conscience

The media’s crisis of conscience

In some ways, the Axact scandal has intimations of a classical tragedy. A powerful individual has fallen because of his own monumental failings in circumstances with which he cannot deal.…

Media Manoeuvring

Media manoeuvring

As soon as the law-enforcement agencies formally launched the Karachi operation this year, the electronic media somehow became a sort of hot battleground between MQM and anti-MQM quarters in the…

Media’s Waterloo?

Media’s Waterloo?

Is the Pakistani media, often described as vibrant, bold and fiercely independent, suddenly facing its Waterloo? The heart wishes to say an emphatic no but the head forces a reality…

Media Matters

Media Matters

In their celebrated work Satellites over South Asia, David Page and William Crawley had not identified even the broadest contours of the enormity of challenges the private broadcast media will…

Media And Its Maladies

Media and its maladies

A tangled web it is. We have this uneasy feeling of being in a deep crisis that we cannot easily decipher. One would expect the media to untangle it for…

A Media Myth

A media myth

Fortunately, both Hamid Mir, the intended victim of the April 19 shooting in Karachi, and freedom of expression will survive. Like Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme, there is no scope for…